Name

Richard Wilson

Bio

An award-winning sports writer, and a national newspaper journalist since 2000, I mostly cover football, in particular the commotions of the Old Firm, but also further afield. There are also regular forays into boxing and golf, my other passions.

For some of the chairmen and chief executives present, that will now seem like a minor concern. A number of them are facing the stark reality of Rangers being required to start from the bottom tier of Scottish football, and the financial consequences

Already there has been a rush of anxiety. Inverness Caledonian Thistle were to hold an emergency board meeting this weekend, while Stewart Gilmour, the St Mirren chairman, yesterday described the decision of the Scottish Football League clubs to vote Rangers into the Third Division as "terrible; catastrophic even".